Brute force removal of a deb package in Ubuntu

Today I was playing with ubuntu 9.04 . I tried to install wwwoffle the off-line proxy server. At the end of installation it failed with a ” Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg failed ” message. There was some thing wrong. Fixing the system required removal of the package. I tried the following in succession in vain.

# apt-get remove wwwoffle

#dpkg -P wwwoffle

#dpkg –force-all -r wwwoffle

I was stuck. I did a manual removal of the deb package like this.

a) List out all the file of the deb package.

# dpkg -L wwwoffle

b) Removed all the files from the above list by hand. If you are smart enough you can write a script for that.